While the pace of the Spurs-Lakers game was waning after returning from the locker room, tempers flared right at the end of the third quarter. The reason: a foul by Zach Collins are Russell Westbrookhit in the forehead by an elbow and bleeding profusely.
Furious, the 2017 MVP received a technical foul for wanting to do battle with the Spurs interior, who for his part was purely and simply sent off for his gesture, which however seemed involuntary in the images.
